The property is in a good blue collar neighborhood within walking distance to an excellent elementary school. 

My credit is good, but not "excellent" because of lack of credit and new accounts open in the form of credit cards, which I did to build credit. haha I do have 3 bad mark on my credit from when I was 19, that will be going off of my report in a year, thank God.

Excellent advice.

ANY title company can provide (frequently for free) a monthly list of NODs and NTS.I ask for an electronic email distribution and that could be fed into Excel

I export to excel, calculate price/squarefoot to get some ballparks and then pull up similar houses for a more in depth comparison.  

Then I found a specific niche / role / talent that I liked and felt I could get excellent at that would contribute to my partners success, ultimately helping my success.  

Essentially, I'd love to see one of these Investor Deal Diaries from you guys, the hosts, in a vlog format if possible.Not that you guys don't have enough going on already, but I think a lot of people would find it incredibly valuable because both you and Josh are great teachers and are excellent at making the process of real estate investing clear and more understandable.In any case, thanks again for the link, Brandon, and keep up the great work.

@David White excellent job on your progress. next step is to let the negative people on bigger pockets who assume that you are broke and put things under contract without money (which even if you did is not really their problem) I applauded you.

If your not thinking the rental route, I have to say I personally received an excellent education buying and flipping my first property, did 80% of the work myself, watching youtube videos to learn how to tile along the way, etc.

I don't have excellent credit, but do have good credit -- 680-690.